The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Resumen del libro

This edition of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms. 'He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change...' A series of brutal incidents - a murder, the trampling of a child - leads lawyer Mr Utterson to try to find out more about the repulsive perpetrator Mr Hyde.

More importantly, he begins to question how Hyde is connected to Utterson's old friend, the respectable Dr Jekyll. Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel, with its concern with doubles and the 'dual nature of man', takes the reader into the darker regions of late Victorian London, as Utterson begins to unravel the mystery and confront the horror of Hyde's true identity.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Robert Louis Stevenson nació en Edimburgo (1850) y estudió Derecho, pero se dedicó a la escritura desde muy joven. En 1874 publicó cuentos, ensayos y poemas pero solo años más tarde daría a luz su mejor obra: x{0026}lt;i La isla del tesorox{0026}lt;/i (1883). La aparición en 1886 de x{0026}lt;i El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y míster Hydex{0026}lt;/i , no hizo sino aumentar la fama del autor. Sin embargo, Stevenson se trasladó a las islas Samoa (Polinesia) y allí vivió retirado hasta su muerte en 1894.x{0026}lt;/p